The Purpose of Teaching Professions 

Teaching Professions is a career tech program designed to give qualified high school students a head start on a successful career path to teaching.  Instead of waiting until you graduate from high school to explore the fundamentals of teaching, you can begin now with focused studies and field experience.  

Junior Year
This two-period course has an honors option. 

•  Education Principles—history of education, learning theorists, philosophy of education

•  Classroom Management—various strategies and procedures to run a classroom smoothly

Senior Year
This is a three-period honors course. 

• Curriculum and Instruction—lesson planning

• Educational Assessment—writing tests and evaluating data

• Education and Training Capstone—student interns spend time in their district’s classrooms getting valuable hands-on experience in four different classroom settings.

College Credit

The Teaching Professions course has received the CTAG endorsement from the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Higher Ed.  If you score high enough on the portfolio and the End-of-Course Tests, you will receive credit for Education Principles at any state university—and it goes with you if you transfer to another state university. 

 
Why teach?  

1. You can change the world, one student at a time.

2. You can experience the joy of working with children or adolescents in their formative years.

3. You have the chance to spend your life with a subject that you love.

4. Each day, you will have opportunities to explore your own creativity and develop it in others.

5. If you are good at what you do, you’ll have a wide choice of jobs in Ohio and across the country.

Do you have what it takes to teach?
Successful teachers have:  

• Good communication skills—both oral and written.

• Patience—they never give up on a student or the learning process.

• A love of learning and knowledge of their subject matter.

• Teamwork skills—they enjoy working with young people and other adults.

• An understanding of how students learn.

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.”
Lee Iococca

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafsai  

JENNIFER MANION, Instructor
330 497 5620 ext 1061

HOOVER HS CT STAFF

ROBERT WHITE
Associate Principal
330 497 5620 ext 1195 

GARY BODENSCHATZ
Career Tech Department Chair
Interactive Media
330 497 5620 ext 1047 

TODD ALKIRE
Engineering
330 497 5620 ext 1057 

ASHTON MCKELLEY
Construction Technology
330 497 5620 ext 1067

SCOTT COLLES
BioMedical Sciences
330 497 5620 ext 1093

BREA KNIGHT
Medical Technology
330 497 5620 ext 1115

SARAH COVINGTON
BioMedical Sciences
330 497 5620 ext 1096

MIKE GRADY
Business Management
330 497 5620 ext 1068

NICOLE SNIDER
Business Management
330 497 5620 ext 1086

BEN JANCHAR
BioMedical Sciences
330 497 5620 ext 1095

JENNIFER MANION
Teaching Professions
330 497 5620 ext 1061

LAUREN MAXWELL
Engineering
330 497 5620 ext 1062

JOSH BRANCH
Video Productions
330 497 5620 ext 1070

PHIL OGILVIE
Culinary Arts
330 497 5620 ext 1121

NICK PLAZAK
BioMedical Sciences
330 497 5620 ext 1091

TOM WILSON
Coordinator, District Television
Video Productions
330 497 5620 ext 1141